Juju Chang is an Emmy® Award-winning co-anchor of ABC News’ “Nightline.” She also reports regularly for “Good Morning America” and “20/20.”

Chang has been recognized for her in-depth personal narratives set against the backdrop of pressing national and international news. From mass shootings to the Opioid Epidemic, Chang is a veteran journalist with a wide-ranging body of work. Chang reported on the recent rise of hate crimes toward the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community as anchor of the ABC News Live special “Stop The Hate: The Rise In Violence Against Asian Americans” and the “20/20” special “Murder In Atlanta” following the Atlanta mass shooting.

Chang’s decades-long career has been recognized with numerous awards, including multiple Emmy’s, Gracie’s, a DuPont, a Murrow and Peabody awards. In 2017, she was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Front Page Awards.

Born in Seoul, South Korea, and raised in Northern California, Chang graduated with honors from Stanford University. A former news anchor for “Good Morning America,” Chang joined ABC News just after college. Chang is a co-founder of the Korean American Community Foundation and a recipient of the Justice in Action Award from the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund. She is a pandemic gardener, devoted wife and mother to 3 sons who identify as “50% Korean and 100% Jewish.”

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Abigail Pogrebin is the author of My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays; One Wondering Jew – a finalist for the 2018 National Jewish Book Awards and still included in synagogue community reads 7 years after publication. Her first book Stars of David: Prominent Jews Talk about Being Jewish, for which she interviewed 60 major public figures — from Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to Steven Spielberg – went into eight hardcover printings and was later adapted for the Off-Broadway stage. Pogrebin’s book, One and the Same, delved into every aspect of growing up as a twin, (her identical twin, Robin Pogrebin, covers culture for the New York Times). Abby was an Emmy-nominated broadcast producer for CBS News’ 60 Minutes — for Ed Bradley and Mike Wallace — and before that at PBS for Fred W. Friendly, Charlie Rose and Bill Moyers. She has written for the Atlantic Magazine, Newsweek, Tablet, the Forward, Vogue, and Harper’s Bazaar. She has moderated public conversations with Hillary Clinton, Lynne Cheney, Madeleine Albright, Bret Stephens, Tom Friedman, Julianna Margulies, Dan Senor, Mayim Bialik, Yossi Klein Halevi, and scores of others at The Streicker Center, the JCC in Manhattan and for JBS Television. Her next book coming out from Fig Tree Books in September and co-authored with Rabbi Dov Linzer — President of YCT — is It Takes Two to Torah: An Orthodox Rabbi and Reform Journalist Discuss and Debate Their Way Through the Five Books of Moses. Abby is a past president of Central Synagogue, a board member of The Shalom Hartman Institute and Yale’s Hillel, The Slifka Center. She is a member of AJC’s Muslim-Jewish Advisory Council and sits on the advisory councils for Atra: The Center for Rabbinic Innovation and for IJS: Institute of Jewish Spirituality. Abby received The Impact Award from The Marlene Meyerson JCC in Manhattan in June 2019, was honored by The Jewish Week in 2017 for contributions to Jewish communal life, and was asked to deliver the plenary address at Hillel International Conference in 2014.

Professor Antepli is a globally acknowledged scholar and leader of cross-religious and cross-cultural dialogue in American higher education and in non-profit world. He has built multiple organizations and initiatives to facilitate religious and spiritual life across America’s college campuses, sowing seeds of understanding between religions while upholding their cultural integrity and dignity. In July 2019, Antepli joined the Sanford School of Public Policy as associate professor of the practice, with a secondary appointment at the Divinity School as associate professor of the practice of interfaith relations.

From 1996-2003 he worked on a variety of faith-based humanitarian and relief projects in Myanmar (Burma) and Malaysia with the Association of Social and Economic Solidarity with Pacific Countries. From 2003 to 2005 he served as the first Muslim chaplain at Wesleyan University. He then moved to Hartford Seminary in Connecticut, where he was the associate director of the Islamic Chaplaincy Program & Interfaith Relations, as well as an adjunct faculty member.

He previously served as Duke  University’s first Muslim chaplain and director of Center for Muslim Life from July 2008 to 2014, and then as Duke’s chief representative for Muslim affairs from July 2014 to 2019. He was also the associate director of the Duke Islamic Studies Center from 2014 to 2015. Professor Antepli is also a senior fellow on Jewish-Muslim Relations at Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, where he founded and co-directs the widely recognized Muslim Leadership Initiative. The NonProfit Times recognized Imam Antepli as one of their Power & Influence Top 50 leaders of 2019, calling him one of the most prominent Muslim leaders in higher education today. As a Muslim-American imam and one of the very few scholars bridging faith, ethics, and public policy, and as someone who was  born in Turkey and lived in three different countries, Antepli offers the academy an important element of intellectual, ethnic, religious and cultural diversity.

Eitan Bernath is an award-winning chef, author, TV personality, entertainer, and social justice activist. The multihyphenate began his gilded entertainment career early, appearing as one of the youngest ever contestants on the Food Network’s Chopped at just 11 years old. Since then, Bernath’s social media presence has amassed over 8 million followers and 3 billion annual video views that reach more than 350 million consumers in 150 countries every year. He is the chief executive officer of Eitan Productions, the Principal Culinary Contributor for the Daytime Emmy® award-winning Drew Barrymore Show on CBS, and is a contributor to The Washington Post, Food & Wine, Saveur, and Delish. Bernath’s debut cookbook Eitan Eats the World, a national bestseller, hit bookstands in May 2022 from Penguin Random House with critical acclaim from outlets including USA Today, Good Morning America, and the Associated Press. Heralded as a leader in social media for mastering the art of quick-cut content, Bernath’s story and success has graced the pages of publications including The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, New York Magazine, and People. In September 2021, Bernath became the youngest ever recipient of Forbes coveted 30 Under 30 award in Food & Drink. Building on his passion to contribute to the global effort to solve hunger, Bernath was appointed by the United Nations World Food Programme as a High Level Supporter in February 2023, becoming the youngest individual ever elevated to such a position. He also serves on City Harvest’s Food Council, World Central Kitchen’s Chef Corps, the Anti-Defamation League’s Entertainment Leadership Council, the White House Historical Association’s Next-Gen Leaders Cohort, and as an ambassador for Animal Haven, an animal shelter in downtown Manhattan.

Alex Edelman is a comedian, actor, and writer. He is known for his TV writing, his love of black-and-white cookies, and his solo shows – all created in collaboration with director Adam Brace and all award-winning, sell-out hits in London’s West End and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Alex made his Broadway debut with Just For Us in 2023, after sold-out runs Off-Broadway (Obie Award, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations), in Washington DC, Boston (his hometown), Melbourne, Edinburgh (Herald Angel Award), London and more. His first solo show, Millennial, won the 2014 Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Newcomer, the first American show to do so since 1997. He has appeared on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” and “Conan.” He is also the creator of Peer Group – a show about young people – on BBC Radio 4. At the start of the pandemic, he served as the head writer and executive producer of Saturday Night Seder, a star-studded 70-minute special posted on YouTube that has so far raised $3.5 million for the CDC Foundation (COVID-19) Emergency Response Fund.

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Deborah E. Lipstadt was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on March 30, 2022, as the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, with the rank of Ambassador. As Special Envoy, she leads efforts to advance U.S. foreign policy to counter antisemitism throughout the world.

Special Envoy Lipstadt has a storied career as a historian, academic, and author. At Emory University’s Tam Institute for Jewish Studies, which she helped to found, she served as the Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies. She has also taught at the University of Washington, UCLA, and Occidental College. Special Envoy Lipstadt also served as the director of the Brandeis-Bardin Institute and was a research fellow at the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Her numerous, award-winning books include: The Eichmann Trial; Denial: Holocaust History on Trial; Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory; and Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust, 1933-1945. She received the National Jewish Book Award three times, most recently in 2019 for Antisemitism: Here and Now. Her biographical study of Golda Meir will be published by Yale University Press in 2023.

Special Envoy Lipstadt is probably best known for having been sued for libel by David Irving, one of the world’s leading Holocaust deniers. The case, which lasted for six years and was heard in court in a twelve-week trial, resulted in Irving being declared by the court to be “a right-wing polemicist,” who engages in antisemitism, racism, and misogyny. That trial was depicted in the 2016 film Denial, which was based on her book History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier.

Special Envoy Lipstadt was a historical consultant to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, helping design the section of the Museum dedicated to the American Response to the Holocaust. She has held a Presidential appointment to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council (from Presidents Clinton and Obama) and was asked by President George W. Bush to represent the White House at the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

Special Envoy Lipstadt holds a BA from the City College of New York and an MA and PhD from Brandeis University.

Hen Mazzig is a globally recognized speaker, educator, author, and digital influencer. Mazzig has gained 500k across his social media platforms, and over 100 million users have interacted with his content. He has appeared as an expert on Jewish issues in media on four continents, including BBC, CNN, The Washington Post, SkyNews, LA Times, Haaretz, and more.

Hen was named in Algemeiner’s Top 100 People positively influencing Jewish Life in 2018 and 2021, the Top 50 online pro-Israel Influencers, and the Top 50 LGBTQ+ Influencers. For his advocacy, he was recently awarded CAMERA’s Portrait in Courage Award. Mazzig’s first book, “The Wrong Kind of Jew” was released in 2022.

In 2019 he co-founded the Tel Aviv Institute which researches and combats online antisemitism.

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Mr. Rowan is a Co-Founder and CEO of Apollo Global Management, Inc. He currently serves on the boards of directors of Apollo Global Management, Inc., Athene Holding Ltd. and Athora Holding Ltd. Currently, Mr. Rowan is Chair of the Board of Advisors of the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. In addition, he is involved in public policy and is an initial funder and contributor to the development of the Penn Wharton Budget Model, a nonpartisan research initiative which provides analysis of public policy’s fiscal impact. An active philanthropist and civically engaged, Mr. Rowan is Chair of the Board of UJA- Federation of New York, the world’s largest local philanthropy helping 4.5 million people annually while funding a network of nonprofits in New York, Israel, and 70 countries. He is also a founding member and Chair of Youth Renewal Fund and Vice Chair of Darca, Israel’s top educational network operating 47 schools with over 27,000 students throughout its most diverse and under-served communities. He is an Executive Committee member of the Civil Society Fellowship, a partnership of ADL and the Aspen Institute, designed to empower the next generation of community leaders and problem solvers. Mr. Rowan graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business with a BS and an MBA in Finance.

With almost 14 million combined followers across her social media platforms, the majority being GenZ, award winning actress, singer, dancer, philanthropist, and social media activist, Montana Tucker, empowers from every angle. As a singer, she has had her songs featured in blockbuster movies, and as an actress, she has been in award winning TV shows and movies, but Montana’s passion has always been to combat antisemitism, as well as all forms of hate and to educate people to love others for their kind hearts and souls and not because of their color, race, sexual preference or religion.

Montana garnered acclaim for her educational online docuseries, “How To: Never Forget”, where she traveled to Poland. The emotional journey culminated with a 10-part docuseries that Tucker posted on her social media channels last fall. The series ends with a visit to Auschwitz, where all 4 of Montana’s great grandparents were murdered and her grandmother Lilly survived. The series was nominated for a Webby Award.

She has been honored by numerous organizations including Magen David Adom, Hatzalah, The National Holocaust Museum, Artists 4 Israel, Auschwitz Jewish Foundation and International Influencer Awards. She most recently headlined the March for Israel Rally in Washington, DC and was the guest speaker for the National Menorah Lighting in Washington this past Hanukkah. In December, Montana met with President Herzog in Israel as well as released hostages and survivors of the Nova Music Festival and kibbutzim.

Montana continues to be one of the strongest voices and leaders reaching the Gen Z population to combat antisemitism.

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Kaylee Werner, 20, is a Junior at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana with plans to pursue a career that encompasses entrepreneurship and corporate innovation as well as environmental sustainability and political science. On campus, Kaylee is in a business fraternity, Delta Sigma Pi (DSP) and a social sorority, Kappa Alpha Theta (Theta). She is involved with Hillel and is using her background in activism to lead a task force to prevent and combat antisemitism on campus. She spent last summer working at a Shibolet law firm in Tel Aviv. Kaylee is also training to ride in the “Little 500” this spring on behalf of her sorority Theta.

Kaylee is from Pittsburgh, PA and came to college with broad experience in leadership, activism, and business. Kaylee was the Regional President of her Jewish youth group (BBYO) and started a non-profit at age 15 to combat gun violence. As a former member of Tree of Life synagogue, gun violence and antisemitism hit Kaylee’s community directly in 2018 with the deadliest attack on Jews in US history. She has led campaigns for TOMS and CeasefirePA, been featured in a UN documentary and has spoken all over the country to audiences as large as 5,000 people about gun violence prevention and antisemitism prevention. Kaylee loves camping, water skiing, snow skiing, hiking, biking, rowing, expressive socks, hanging out with friends and family and has an unwavering fascination with parliamentary procedure.

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E. Rosie Weisberg is a Jewish and Special Educator and Advocate. She is a founding member of Mothers Against College Antisemitism and founder of Our Voices Rise. Her work in violence prevention in education, sexual assault crisis counseling, and foster care, has given her insight into a variety of voiceless populations. In pursuit of her passion to uplift diverse marginalized voices, Rosie has spent time volunteering and learning in Israel, Ukraine, Jamaica, and numerous urban and rural environments in the U.S. As a Jewish mother of three and Principal of a Jewish school, Rosie is immersed in supporting Jewish youth.

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As ADL’s Inaugural Rabbinic Fellow, Rabbi David Wolpe serves as a thought leader within the organization, advising on interfaith and intergroup affairs, and sharing his thoughts and reflections with the community at large.

Rabbi David Wolpe is the Max Webb Emeritus Rabbi of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles. Author of eight books, including the national bestseller “Making Loss Matter: Creating Meaning in Difficult Times,” Wolpe has been named the most influential Rabbi in America by Newsweek and twice named among the 50 most influential Angelinos by LA Magazine. He is the Senior Advisor at Maimonides Fund. He has taught at a number of universities, including UCLA, Hunter College, Pepperdine and the Jewish Theological Seminary and written for The NY Times, Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Jerusalem Post among other newspapers and journals. Wolpe has also recently accepted a position as visiting scholar at Harvard Divinity School.

Nuseir, recipient of the Daniel Pearl Award, rose to fame by doing the crazy task of making 1,000 videos in 1,000 days. Now, he is focused on building Nas Company – the community company. They make video content, craft incredible experiences, and build powerful technology tools for community builders. By reaching over 300 million people every month, he has transformed the way people connect both online and offline.

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Jonathan A. Greenblatt is the CEO of ADL (Anti-Defamation League) and its sixth National Director. As chief executive of ADL, Jonathan leads all aspects of the world’s leading anti-hate organization. He is an accomplished entrepreneur and innovative leader with deep experience in the private, public and nonprofit sectors.

Since becoming CEO in July 2015, Greenblatt has modernized ADL while refocusing it on the mission it has had since its founding in 1913: to fight the defamation of the Jewish people, and to secure justice and fair treatment to all.

Under Greenblatt, ADL has modernized its operations, innovated its approaches to counter antisemitism from all sides and enhanced its efforts to combat extremism in all forms. During his tenure ADL rebooted its Center on Extremism that analyzes and monitors extremists and hate groups; launched “Never Is Now” the largest annual convening in the world focused on antisemitism and hate; created the Center for Technology and Society in Silicon Valley to fight the rising tide of online hate and harassment; partnered with the Aspen Institute to launch the Civil Society Fellowship, an innovative program that builds cohorts of emerging leaders across a continuum of ideology and identity; developed the Sports Leadership Council to engage athletes, teams and leagues to confront bigotry and discrimination more effectively; and executed Stop Hate for Profit, the successful campaign that organized businesses, celebrities, nonprofits and policy makers to fight the rampant racism, antisemitism and extremism on Facebook.

In 2022, Greenblatt released It Could Happen Here, a book that sounds an alarm, warning that hate and systemic violence is gathering momentum in the United States – and that violence on a more catastrophic scale could be just around the corner.

Jonathan serves on numerous corporate and non-profit boards and has been recognized on multiple occasions for his leadership at ADL. He has been named by The NonProfit Times to its list of Top 50 Nonprofit Leaders from 2016-2022. Recode named Jonathan to its inaugural “Recode 100,” a list of the top 100 people in business and technology. He has been named among the Top 50 Most Influential Leaders in the global Jewish community by The Jerusalem Post and as one of the Top 50 Jews to follow on Twitter by the JTA.

Before ADL, Greenblatt served in the White House as Special Assistant to President Obama and Director of the Office of Social Innovation. He came to that role after a long career in business. In 2002, he co-founded Ethos Brands, the business that launched Ethos Water, a premium bottled water that helps children around the world access clean water. Ethos was acquired by Starbucks Coffee Company in 2005. Following the acquisition, Jonathan was named VP of Global Consumer Products at Starbucks and joined the board of the Starbucks Foundation.

In 2009, Jonathan founded All for Good (AFG), the largest database of volunteer opportunities on the Internet. Incubated at Google, AFG developed an innovative strategy to organize the world’s volunteer listings. AFG was acquired by Points of Light in 2011. Jonathan also served as CEO of GOOD Worldwide, a diversified media company and as an executive at REALTOR.com, joining the company as a product manager and eventually heading up its consumer products division. REALTOR went public in 1999 (HOMS) and was acquired by News Corp in 2014.

Jonathan has served as an adjunct faculty member at the Anderson School of Management at UCLA and as a senior fellow at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Jonathan graduated cum laude with a BA from Tufts University and earned his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Ben Sax is the Chair of ADL Board of Directors. In his 25 years of volunteering for ADL, Ben has served in various leadership positions, including Vice-Chair of the Board, National Chair of Development and New York Regional Board Chair. Ben also assisted in a complete revamp of the organization’s governance structure to bolster leadership, accountability and transparency to sustain the organization’s long-term future.

Ben is a partner at KORE Private Wealth, a multibillion-dollar registered investment advisor that works exclusively with wealthy individuals and their families to help navigate the world around them. Focusing on everything from financial, estate and tax planning to asset allocation and investment, Ben and his team work with clients to achieve their goals through objective thinking and innovative wealth solutions with a mission to educate, inform and help them feel secure in the decisions they make about their financial lives.

He has also taught financial literacy to young adults at several non-profit organizations over the years. Ben has a deep appreciation for the arts, is a graduate of Bowdoin college, has two adult children, two grandchildren and is married to Hollis, a professional photographer.

Shira Goodman is a member of the Anti-Defamation League’s Government Relations, Advocacy and Community Engagement (GRACE) Team. She serves as Senior Director of Advocacy, coordinating state and local advocacy across ADL’s 25 Regional offices, developing engagement opportunities for volunteers, and, since October 7, leading ADL’s work to combat antisemitism on campus. Prior to that, she served as the Regional Director of the Anti-Defamation League’s Philadelphia Region, which serves Eastern Pennsylvania, Southern New Jersey and Delaware.

For seven years before joining the ADL, Shira served as the Executive Director of CeaseFirePA, a statewide organization working to end the epidemic of gun violence in Pennsylvania and across the country.  Prior to that, Shira worked as Deputy Director of Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts, a non-profit working for fair courts and equal access to justice, and as a labor lawyer at Ballard Spahr.

Shira is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Yale Law School.

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Carole Nuriel has been working with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for 22 years. Prior to assuming her current position as Senior Regional Director, Israel and MENA Countries, Carole was ADL’s Senior Middle Eastern Affairs Analyst with 24 years of experience in this field, focusing on manifestations of anti-Semitism in Middle Eastern media outlets. In her current position Carole is focused on promoting ADL’s programming, advocacy and partnerships globally as well as ADL’s work in Israel including advancing social cohesion, raising awareness to anti-Semitism and de-legitimization of Israel and working with ADL’s partners in Israel (government offices, IDF, INP, NGOs and others).

Carole served in the Israel Defense Force’s Intelligence Corps during her compulsory service. Later she worked for the Israel Broadcasting Authority, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and at the Shalem Center. Carole holds a BA in Arabic language and literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an MA in Arabic language and literature (majoring in classic Arabic language). She speaks Hebrew, French, Arabic, English and Spanish. Carole is married with three children.

Aaron Ahlquist serves as ADL’s Director of Policy for the Southern Division, and previously served as the regional director of ADL’s South Central Region. In his role as Divisional Policy Director, Aaron helps guide strategy and advocacy while leading the Divisional Engagement Team in supporting the work of ADL in the Southern Division. Prior to his joining ADL, after obtaining his JD from the University of Richmond School of Law, Aaron began practicing law in New Orleans in 2004 where he focused his efforts on national level mass torts and class actions, including among other cases, helping lead efforts against the BP and Transocean Defendants following the Gulf Oil Spill, and as part of leadership on other pharmaceutical and products liability mass torts across the country. Following his graduation from the University of Wisconsin, and prior to his attending law school, Aaron spent three years on the Legislative Staff of Senator Paul Wellstone (D-MN) in Washington, DC. Aaron lives in New Orleans with his wife and children, where he is an active member of the community, having served on a number of boards and campaigns, and where he loves to enjoy the music and culture of his adopted home.

Debbie L Berman is a first chair trial lawyer at Jenner & Block LLP where she co-chairs the Business Litigation, Trade Secrets and First Amendment and Defamation practices. She leads cases and client teams for multinational companies facing significant business challenges. An experienced advisor to boards and the C-suite, she helps clients resolve complex commercial matters including contractual obligations, vendor relationships, and strategic partnerships. Debbie frequently is involved in matters that make national headlines, as well as situations that require discretion and sensitivity. Her deep experience and diverse skills are utilized on matters involving complicated business disputes, trade secrets, restrictive covenants, unfair competition, trademark protection, and First Amendment litigation related to new social media platforms. She also helps develop policies and build corporate culture to protect trade secrets in the United States and international jurisdictions.

Debbie is involved in a variety of leadership roles at Jenner & Block, including serving as the co-chair of the pro bono committee. She is chair emeritus of the firm’s Women’s Forum and was involved in launching the firm’s Jewish affinity group.

Debbie also serves in leadership roles in local, national and international philanthropic organizations. She currently is the board chair for the Midwest Region of the Anti-Defamation League where she has been involved for more than 15 years. She also is the President of the Harvard Law Society of Illinois. She is on the board of governors of the Jewish Agency for Israel where she chairs the audit committee. And she is on the board of the Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago where she has held a variety of leadership positions over the past 30 plus years.

Liz Bloom is policy advisor and speechwriter on the White House Domestic Policy Council, where she leads implementation of the U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism. Previously in the Biden-Harris Administration, she worked at the Securities and Exchange Commission under Chair Gary Gensler. She began her career in journalism.

Jillian Bontke is the Director of Education Programs for ADL’s Central Division where she provides strategic planning and leadership for all ADL Education programs and resources at the divisional level including, antisemitism, antibias, Holocaust education and No Place for Hate on over 800 campuses in the division. Jillian joined the ADL after working as a public school teacher & counselor. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of Texas and is passionate about helping people critically explore their own bias and empowering them to become changemakers in their communities.

Rabbi Angela Warnick Buchdahl serves as the Senior Rabbi of Central Synagogue in New York City and is the first woman to lead Central’s Reform congregation in its 180-year history. Rabbi Buchdahl first joined Central Synagogue as Senior Cantor in 2006. In 2014, she was chosen by the congregation to be Senior Rabbi.

Rabbi Buchdahl was invested as a cantor in 1999 and also ordained as a rabbi in 2001 by the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York where she was a Wexner Graduate Fellow. She earned a bachelor of arts in religious studies from Yale University in 1994. Born in Korea to a Jewish American father and a Korean Buddhist mother, Rabbi Buchdahl is the first Asian American to be ordained as a cantor or rabbi in North America. Prior to her service at Central Synagogue, Rabbi Buchdahl served as Associate Rabbi/Cantor at Westchester Reform Temple in Scarsdale, New York.

Rabbi Buchdahl has been nationally recognized for her innovations in leading worship, which draw large crowds both in the congregation’s historic Main Sanctuary and via livestream and cable broadcast to viewers in more than 100 countries.

Rabbi Buchdahl has been featured in dozens of news outlets including the Today Show, NPR, and PBS and was listed as one of Newsweek’s “America’s 50 Most Influential Rabbis.” She serves on the boards of the AJC, the Asia Society, the New York Board of Rabbis, and the Yale University President’s Council.

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Jon Cohen (he/him) is a national community builder with a commitment to LGBTQ+ rights. His work organizing diverse communities through an intersectional Jewish lens is inspired by the wisdom and experiences he has gained as a Gay, Mexican, Jew. As Keshet’s Director of Community Mobilization, Jon has mobilized Jewish institutions in all 50 states to fight for LGBTQ+ rights. A South Florida native, Jon lives in Miami with his husband, Kevin.

BEN COSGROVE is a Founder and CEO of Leviathan Productions, a film and television production company dedicated to telling Jewish stories, and stories about Israel.

Previously he was President of 2929 Productions. Among the projects he produced at 2929 were Serena (Bradley Cooper & Jennifer Lawrence), Deadfall (Eric Bana & Olivia Wilde), Please Stand By (Dakota Fanning), and Permanent (Rainn Wilson & Patricia Arquette).

Before 2929, Cosgrove was Senior Vice-President of Production at Paramount Pictures. Among the projects he developed and/or supervised at Paramount were Dreamgirls (Beyonce, Jamie Foxx, Eddie Murphy & Jennifer Hudson), The Fighter (Christian Bale & Mark Wahlberg) and Interstellar (Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway & Jessica Chastain).

Before Paramount, Cosgrove was President of George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh’s production company Section Eight. Among the projects he produced at Section Eight were The Good German
(George Clooney, Cate Blanchett & Tobey Maguire) and Rumor Has It (Jennifer Aniston, Mark Ruffalo & Kevin Costner). At Section Eight Cosgrove executive produced Good Night, and Good Luck (George Clooney, David Strathairn & Robert Downey, Jr.), Syriana (George Clooney, Matt Damon & Jeffrey Wright), A Scanner Darkly (Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder & Robert Downey, Jr.), Insomnia (Al Pacino, Robin Williams & Hillary Swank) and Welcome to Collinwood (William H. Macy, Sam Rockwell & Patricia Clarkson).

Cosgrove graduated from Columbia University with a B.A. in English Literature.

Darryl Coulon currently serves as the Associate Director of Education for ADL’s Southern Division, where he helps PreK-12 and workplace educational efforts in fifteen states.

Darryl began a career in Jewish nonprofits before graduating undergrad, by interning in ADL’s New Orleans office in 2016, interning for a pro-Israel organization in 2017 in Washington, D.C., and serving as lead organizer for pro-Israel student groups at Xavier University of Louisiana and at LSU in Baton Rouge between 2016-2019.

With professional experience in fundraising and community organizing, Darryl brings a passion for bridge-building across diverse communities and facilitating important, yet sensitive, conversations related to interpersonal themes at the intersection of oppression and race/ethnicity, religion, and sexual orientation.

Darryl recently relocated from Houston, Texas, back to his hometown of New Orleans, to continue fighting hate for good in this role at ADL. In his free time, Darryl is usually found studying and flying for his pilot’s license.

Eytan Davidson is the Regional Director for ADL Southeast. In this role he is responsible for carrying out ADL’s mission to protect the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment for all. The Southeast Region is comprised of the states of Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Alabama. Eytan is a seasoned nonprofit executive with a deep background in communications, government affairs, and community relations with experience at senior levels of transformational projects and organizations in cities across the country.

He previously served as Vice President of Communications for Purpose Built Communities where he was a member of the senior leadership team for the organization leading all aspects of communications, marketing, government affairs, and served as a senior consultant for the 28 member organizations of Purpose Built Communities’ national network. Prior to that, he served as Director of Communications and Media Relations for Atlanta BeltLine, Inc. where he led and executed the communications and marketing efforts of the Atlanta BeltLine. He has also served as Vice President of Communications and Director of the David Rockefeller Fellows program for the Partnership for New York City, an international business organization. Prior to that, he served in various communications and administrative roles in the Mayoral Administration of Michael R. Bloomberg for four and a half years in the Mayor’s Office and the Department of Small Business Services. He also worked on the Bloomberg for Mayor Campaign in 2001.

As a volunteer, Eytan served as the first vice president of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Atlanta and was a Frank Fellow at the Jewish Council of Public Affairs in 2019-2020. He previously served on the boards of Jewish Kids Groups, the Atlanta Jewish Music Festival, and Limmud Southeast + Atlanta.

Eytan is also a husband, father of two children, and a professional musician and music producer.

Mr. Davidson is a graduate of Columbia University in New York with a B.A. in History and earned a Certificate of Business Excellence for Senior Nonprofit Managers from Columbia Business School.

Deb Donig is an Assistant Professor of English Literature at Cal Poly and a Lecturer UC Berkeley’s School of Information in the MA in Data Science Program. She is the co-founder of the Cal Poly Ethical Technology Initiative and the host of “Technically Human,” a podcast where she talks with major thinkers, writers, and industry-leading technologists about the relationship between humans and the technologies we create. She is the 2023-2024 Belfer Fellow at the Center for Technology and Society at the ADL and a Fellow at the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. She has taught and published on a wide variety of areas, including ethical technology, comparative genocide studies, science fiction, African and Caribbean literatures, and The New Yorker. Her first book is on comparative genocide and the ecology of evidence in human rights discourse.

Outside of academia, she consults on film and television projects, including the forthcoming anthology series “Weight of the World,” and the Amazon Prime Series Hunters, produced by Jordan Peele and starring Al Pacino. In 2020, she was featured as an expert in the documentary “Hunters: Behind the Scenes,” where she discussed the role of fiction in and the ethics of representing the Holocaust.

Wendy Doernberg is a Senior Attorney-Advisor in the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Office of Federal Operations, Federal Sector Programs. Wendy specializes in a variety of federal sector equal employment opportunity issues. She has served on the implementation team for Executive 14035: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in the Federal Workforce since prior to its issuance in June 2021 and participates in various cross-agency initiatives to promote disability rights and accessibility. She is also the immediate past chair of the Federal Inter-Agency Holocaust Remembrance Committee. Originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she attended The George Washington University, where she majored in Political Science and Judaic Studies, and the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. She previously worked for several federal agencies. In her free time, she enjoys traveling and exploring DC with her husband, Aaron.

As Senior Vice President, Talent and Knowledge, Cheryl Drazin provides strategic leadership across all areas that affect the organization’s people and culture.

Cheryl joined ADL in 2013 as the Jean and Jerry Moore Civil Rights Area counsel and became Regional Director for the Dallas regional office in 2016. In 2020, Cheryl was appointed Vice President of the Central Division where she and her team worked daily to fight antisemitism and all forms of hate. In that capacity, Cheryl led operations for seven ADL regional offices. Cheryl was promoted to Senior Vice President for Talent and Knowledge in 2023. Prior to joining ADL, Cheryl was shareholder at a boutique labor and employment law firm where her practice focused on advocating for individuals who experienced workplace discrimination.

Cheryl earned her BA from Washington University in St. Louis and a JD from The University of Texas School of Law.

Eric Ebenstein is a Senior Director of Public Policy at TikTok where he is responsible for US strategic policy initiatives and government affairs at the federal, state and international levels. He has more than a decade of experience working on regulatory and policy issues for technology companies.

Prior to joining TikTok, Eric was Head of North America Public Policy at DJI–the world’s leading civilian drone company. During his tenure, he led DJI’s advocacy efforts for regulatory and legislative issues on the federal and state level as well as internationally for Mexico and Canada. Before this, Eric was at POET, a sustainable energy company where he built the state Government Affairs team and mandate. He also served as Chief of Staff for Government Relations at Hewlett Packard where he advised on the North American government affairs program.

Eric holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Lehigh University, from which he graduated Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa and a Juris Doctor degree from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. He is based in TikTok’s Washington, DC office and lives in Northern Virginia with his wife and two children.

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Miriam Ezagui is a Brooklyn based Orthodox Jewish mom of four and labor & delivery nurse who uses her platforms to share what her life is like as an Orthodox Jew, educating about antisemitism and often features her 95 year old grandmother who is a Holocaust survivor.

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Shimon Fogel has served as President and CEO for the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs since 2011. He is a graduate of the Clark School of Government and International Relations in Massachusetts and pursued graduate and doctoral studies at McGill University. He also holds both Rabbinic and Judicial ordination.

Shimon joined the Canada-Israel Committee as Director of Government Relations in 1988 and was appointed as CEO in 2001.

Shimon Fogel has served as a consultant to Parliament’s Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and as a member of the prestigious Round Table on Global Security under the Department of National Defense.

In 2002 he introduced the concept of the Shared Values strategy as a basis for securing support for Israel that has now been adopted by much of the international pro-Israel advocacy community, including Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2005 he developed a model for moving to sustainable peace in the Middle East that focuses on conflict management rather than conflict resolution – an approach that has won broad support internationally.

He has written and lectured extensively in Canada and internationally on matters of public policy and has been engaged by numerous groups, including the Assembly of First Nations, the World Sikh Organization, the Ukrainian Canadian Congress and the Canadian Tibet Committee, to advise on strategic planning and advocacy.

The Hill Times recognized Fogel as one of the 100 most influential actors within the political sector, and Embassy Magazine ranked him among the 50 most important people influencing Canadian foreign policy.

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Founder of the modern Jewish Pride movement, a leader, thinker, and educator, Ben M. Freeman is the author of Jewish Pride: Rebuilding a People and Reclaiming our Story: The Pursuit of Jewish Pride. Educating, inspiring and empowering, his work focuses on Jewish identity and historical and contemporary Jew-hatred. A Holocaust scholar for over fifteen years, Ben came to prominence during the Corbyn Labour Jew-hate crisis in the UK and quickly became one of his generation’s leading Jewish thinkers and voices against Jew-hate. Voted number 8 on the inaugural 25 Young ViZionaries list by the Jerusalem Post and JNF-USA. He is also a Jewish Diplomat for the World Jewish Congress, a Research Fellow for the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism Policy and a columnist for The Jerusalem Post. As a specialist in the field for over a decade, Ben is a prominent thought-leader on Jewish education, history and identity and carries out speaking engagements all over the world. His work also includes consulting for Emmy Award-winning directors on documentary projects, such as Jews of the Wild West. Through his work, he aims to educate, inspire and empower both Jewish and non-Jewish people from all over the world.

Alex Friedfeld is an Associate Director of Investigative Research with the ADL’s Center on Extremism, where he leads a research team that tracks a range of extremist groups and movements. To date, he has trained thousands of federal, state, and local law enforcement officers on a variety of extremism and domestic terrorism-related issues. He frequently represents the ADL on national and international outlets, including CNN, NBC, and the Guardian. Prior to joining the ADL, he worked as an analyst in the New York Police Department’s counterterrorism and intelligence bureaus where he monitored terrorist activity around the world and ran terrorism-related investigations in the city.

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Yosef Getachew is a Senior Policy Counsel at Reset.Tech where he supports programmatic work in the United States to help shape policies and regulations that safeguard digital rights and mitigate platform business practices that cause public harm. Yosef works with Reset’s partners to develop legal, policy, and corporate accountability strategies to combat digital threats to democracy. His work focuses on data privacy, transparency, artificial intelligence, content moderation, and other issues. Prior to joining Reset, Yosef served as the Media and Democracy Program Director for Common Cause where he led strategic campaigns to educate and engage the public and policymakers on critical reforms needed to advance an open and accessible media ecosystem that supports democracy.

Carrie Goldberg is the founder of Victims’ Rights law firm C. A. Goldberg, PLLC, which does groundbreaking work nationally fighting for survivors of sexual violence and representing victims of catastrophic injuries caused by tech giants. The firm leads the nation in landmark cases challenging Section 230 immunity against big tech. As lead counsel in Herrick v. Grindr, Carrie introduced the novel legal approach of applying product liability law to dangerous tech products. The firm presently represents 12 families suing Amazon for selling a suicide poison to their children. In November 2023 the firm’s monumental settlement in A.M. v. Omegle resulted in the platform shuttering forever. The case created new precedent in the realm of product liability and sex trafficking, the first case to overcome Section 230 where the plaintiff sued a platform for injuries caused by a malicious user. The firm overcame 230 immunity in January 2024 against Snap for its role in fentanyl deaths in Neville, et al. v Snap and is appealing to the 9^th Circuit in Doe v Grindr relating to the foreseeable child rapes caused from the app marketing to children. Carrie proudly serves on the plaintiff steering committee in the multi-district litigation against Snap, Google, TikTok, and Meta regarding the platforms designing products intended to addict children.

Among the firm’s better-known clients are former Congresswoman Katie Hill and five Weinstein accusers, including Lucia Evans whose accusations helped launch the #MeToo movement and resulted in Weinstein’s arrest. Some of the firm’s proudest successes, though, are the ones that stay out of the headlines – recoveries for adult survivors of child sexual abuse and restraining orders for A-list celebrities against their stalkers.  In K.M. v. City of New York, C.A. Goldberg, PLLC achieved the highest known recovery in a Title IX case in NYC.

Carrie’s well-known work for victims of nonconsensual porn is featured in the documentary Netizens and her work is profiled in The New Yorker, Elle, Cosmo, Wired, Glamour and more. Carrie is the author of “Nobody’s Victim: Fighting Psychos, Stalkers, Pervs & Trolls” a 2019 NYT Editor’s Choice and Paramount TV is developing a fictionalized series about Carrie and the firm. She attended Vassar College and Brooklyn Law School.

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Tyler J. Goldberger is an advanced History PhD candidate at William & Mary specializing in historical memory. His research interests surround sites of memory, transnationalism, and human rights in the United States and Spain in the 20th and 21st centuries. He speaks annually for The International School of Holocaust Education at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, Israel and supported the creation of the Echoes and Reflections video toolbox “Liberators and Survivors: The First Moments,” which, at 5.1 million views, is Yad Vashem’s most viewed video. Tyler’s research and pedagogy have been generously supported by the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library, New York Public Library, Duke University Human Rights Archive, and Charles E. Scheidt Teaching & Research Grant for Atrocity Prevention, among others.

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Ellen P. Goodman, @ellgood, is Distinguished Professor at Rutgers Law School, where she has also served as Assoc. Dean for Strategic Initiatives. She recently completed a stint serving as Senior Advisor for Algorithmic Justice at NTIA, U.S. Department of Commerce. At Rutgers, she co-directs and co-founded the Rutgers Institute for Information Policy & Law (RIIPL) and was prior to government service a Senior Fellow at the German Marshall Fund. Goodman has published widely on media and telecommunications law, smart cities and algorithmic governance, freedom of expression, and advertising law. Her short-form writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Guardian, Slate, Los Angeles Times, Democracy Journal, etc.  She served in the Obama Administration as a Distinguished Visiting Scholar with the Federal Communications Commission and has been a visiting scholar at the London School of Economics and the University of Pennsylvania. Goodman has received grants from the Knight Foundation, Ford Foundation, Democracy Fund, and Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation for work on digital platform regulation, transparency, advancing new public media models, and public interest journalism. Prior to joining the Rutgers faculty, Goodman was a partner at the law firm of Covington & Burling LLP, where she practiced in the information technology area. She is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, clerked for Judge Norma Shapiro on the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and has three grownish children.

Ginnifer Goodwin is an actress, best known for her roles in the television series BIG LOVE (HBO,) ONCE UPON A TIME (Disney+,) and WHY WOMEN KILL (PARAMOUNT+.) Her film credits include MONA LISA SMILE, WALK THE LINE, A SINGLE MAN, HE’S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU, SOMETHING BORROWED, and ZOOTOPIA.

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Yasmin Green is the CEO of Jigsaw, a unit within Google that addresses threats to open societies. She leads an interdisciplinary team that researches and develops technical solutions across a range of global security challenges, including violent extremism, repressive censorship, hate, harassment, and disinformation. Yasmin has spent 17 years at Google serving in a variety of roles including strategy, business development and operations in Europe, the Middle-East and Sub-saharan Africa. Yasmin is Co-chair of the Aspen Cybersecurity Group, and sits on the boards of the Anti-Defamation League and the Tory Burch Foundation. Yasmin has been named one of Fortune’s “40 Under 40” most influential young leaders, and one of Fast Company’s “Most Creative People in Business.”

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On March 1st, 1994, a Lebanese gunman murdered 16-year-old Ari Halberstam in an antisemitic and terrorist attack on the Brooklyn Bridge.

Grief and fury over her beloved elder son’s murder transformed his mother, Devorah, into an activist and crusader against terrorism.

After the FBI’s initial classification of the shooting as an act of “road rage”, Devorah led a one-woman battle to have her son’s death reclassified as an act of terrorism. Six years later, the FBI finally recognized the attack as a terrorist act.

She pounded the halls of Congress, offices of elected officials and the New York court system, where she advocated reforms in our government. She campaigned for changes in our judicial and immigrations systems, where she pursued deportation proceedings against the accomplices who flouted American immigration laws.

She brought the first lawsuit in the history of American jurisprudence against the gun manufacturer that supplied Ari’s killer with the arsenal of weapons he used in the shooting.

Her endless struggle for justice did not end there. She continued, advocating in the state for the passing of “Ari’s Law” as part of a comprehensive gun control bill, which prohibits interstate gun trafficking.

Ari’s Law is also pending in Congress which would ban the sale of gun kits.

She helped craft new laws in Congress that has reduced the abuses found in the political asylum process.

Devorah authored together with Governor George E. Pataki the first New York State laws to counter terrorism, which included the death penalty for the crimes of a terrorist. These were signed into law by Governor Pataki in 2001. Devorah was appointed by the Governor to serve on the New York State Commission on Terrorism.

Devorah is a frequent speaker who has traveled around the country speaking to the civic community and on college campuses, educating the public about the threats of antisemitism and terrorism in New York, United States, and around the world. She currently instructs local, state and federal law enforcement agencies on terrorism- related issues in the United States and other Governments including AFP, EU Counter-terrorism and Belgian law enforcement.

She is one of the founders of the Jewish Children’s Museum in Brooklyn, New York and presently its Director of External Affairs. It is a 50,000 Square-Ft. landmark with hands-on workshops and exhibits on the history and culture of the Jewish people. Since its opening in 2005, there have been over 3 million visitors. The museum is dedicated to her son’s memory and its mission is to promote tolerance and understanding through education and culture.

She has been the recipient of numerous awards including the FBI Community Leadership Award and was nominated for the Ellis Island Medal of Honor. Devorah is a NYPD Hon. Commissioner for Community Safety and Chair of NYPD’s Civilian Hate Crimes Review Panel.

Jason Harris is the co-founder & CEO of award-winning creative advertising agency Mekanism, co-founder of the Creative Alliance and author of national bestseller, The Soulful Art of Persuasion. Harris works closely with clients to build iconic brands using a blend of soul & science. Iconic brand partners include Jose Cuervo, Alaska Airlines, Quaker, Charles Schwab, Amtrak and Whoop, among others.

Under his leadership, Mekanism has been ranked by the Effie Index as a top 10 Most Effective Agency in the United States. Mekanism has also been named to Ad Age’s Agency A-list and twice to their Best Places to Work. Mekanism has two active case studies on their methods at the Harvard Business School.

Harris was named CEO of the Year by The Drum, a recipient of the 4A’s 100 People Who Make Advertising Great, and Campaign US’s 40 Over 40 for his noteworthy contributions to the advertising & marketing industry. Harris also hosts the Soul & Science Podcast – interviewing the world’s top CMOs. The podcast is the recipient of 5 industry podcast awards.

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Rabbi Moshe Hauer joined the Orthodox Union (OU) as its Executive Vice President on May 1, 2020. In this role he serves as the organization’s rabbinic leader, heading its communal-oriented efforts and serving as its professional religious/policy leader and primary spokesman. Prior to joining the OU, Rabbi Hauer served as the senior Rabbi of the Bnai Jacob Shaarei Zion Congregation in Baltimore, MD for 26 years, where he was active in local communal leadership in many areas, with an emphasis on education, children-at-risk, and social service organizations serving the Jewish community. Rabbi Hauer is an active teacher of Torah who led a leadership training program for rabbis and communal leaders, and was a founding editor of the online journal Klal Perspectives. Rabbi Hauer received his rabbinic ordination and doctor of Talmudic law from Ner Israel. He received his master’s of science from John Hopkins University.

As Vice President of International Policy, Susan Heller Pinto oversees ADL’s work combatting antisemitism and hate outside the United States as well as supporting Israel as a Jewish and democratic state. She also pays a key role with ADL’s work in the U.S. and globally educating and engaging about anti-Zionism and countering efforts to undermine Israel’s legitimacy.

Susan joined ADL in 1993 as Assistant Director of Middle Eastern Affairs and has worked for nearly three decades to develop and promote ADL’s international affairs priorities.

Susan is a graduate of the University of Toronto and the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs.

Libby Hemphill, PhD, is an associate professor at the University of Michigan where she studies extremism in social media, data access, and data curation. She was a Belfer Fellow at ADL and wrote Very Fine People: What Social Media Platforms Miss About White Supremacist Speech. She uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to understand how extremism in social media changes over time and how to encourage healthy, productive social media conversations.

Justin Herdman, a former United States Attorney, is a trial lawyer who represents businesses and individuals involved in high-stakes government investigations, criminal litigation, and civil actions. Justin’s practice is focused on obtaining favorable results in matters arising from alleged violations of state and federal laws, including fraud, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), and the False Claims Act (FCA). He has successfully tried numerous cases in state and federal courts throughout his two decades in public service and private practice.

Prior to rejoining Jones Day in 2021, Justin served as the chief federal law enforcement officer for the Northern District of Ohio. Justin was nationally recognized for his effort in developing strategic responses to controlled substances, terrorism, and violent crime. While U.S. Attorney, Justin served as vice chair of the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee (AGAC), where he provided national-level guidance on the management and operations of the Justice Department. Justin was also named co- chair of the Attorney General’s Prescription Interdiction and Litigation Task Force and was chair of AGAC’s Terrorism and National Security Subcommittee.

Justin also maintains an active pro bono practice. In 2022, his trial work with the Ohio Innocence Project led to the acquittal of a wrongfully convicted man who had spent 15 years in state prison.

Justin previously served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney prosecuting national security offenses, including terrorism, money laundering, and export control violations. He is a former assistant district attorney in New York City and currently serves as a judge advocate in the U.S. Air Force Reserve.

Yael Hershfield is the Director for Incident Response and Law Enforcement Initiatives for the ADL Southern Division which encompasses 15 states covered by 5 regional offices- Florida, South East, South Central, Cleveland and Washington DC.

As Director of Incident Response, Yael manages all bias-motivated incidents that are reported to ADL in this division and in particular antisemitic incidents against Jewish institutions or individuals.

ADL’s expertise on hate crimes and extremism brings added value to the work of law enforcement. Yael ensures that training and briefings on these areas of expertise are available to law enforcement officials.

Yael has been working to ensure the safety and security of the Jewish people and protecting the rights of all citizens alike with ADL since 2006.

Meredith Jacobs is CEO of Jewish Women International (JWI), a 125-year-old nonprofit dedicated to ending violence against women and girls. Since assuming the role of CEO in 2020, Jacobs has shepherded the development of numerous JWI initiatives, including the National Center on Domestic & Sexual Violence in the Jewish Community; the Collaborative of Jewish Domestic Violence Agencies; the Women’s Financial Empowerment Institute; ReStart: job readiness for survivors; the Jewish Gun Violence Prevention Roundtable; and the international expansion of JWI’s Young Women’s Leadership Network.

An award-winning journalist and former editor-in-chief of Washington Jewish Week, Jacobs is the author of The Modern Jewish Mom’s Guide to Shabbat (HarperCollins) and co-author, with her daughter Sofie of the bestselling series of interactive journals, Just Between Us (Chronicle Books). Prior to joining JWI, she founded ModernJewishMom.com, the first Jewish parenting website (now part of Kveller), and was the host of the WYPR radio show, Connecting Family and The Jewish Channel television holiday specials, Modern Jewish Mom.

Named one of the “50 Most Influential Jews of 2020” by The Jerusalem Post, Jacobs is a sought-after speaker, moderator and writer. Her opinion pieces appear frequently in outlets such as JTA, eJewishPhilanthropy, and the Forward. She is a member of the advisory board of the Women’s Business Collaborative (WBC) and serves on the Women’s Economic Empowerment Council for the State of Maryland — an advisory council to Brooke Lierman, Comptroller of Maryland. In 2024, Jacobs was a member of the expert panel on Improving Access to Services for Domestic Abuse Victims in the Military, sponsored by the Department of Defense. She earned a B.A. in English from Haverford College and holds a Masters of Science in Business from Johns Hopkins University.

Oren Jacobson is a civic entrepreneur, thought leader, and organizer focused on addressing systemic problems. He’s the co-founder and Executive Director of Project Shema which trains and supports the Jewish community and allies to more effectively address contemporary antisemitism, with an emphasis on how anti-Jewish ideas can emerge in progressive spaces, including in discourse around Israel and Palestine. Oren is a nationally recognized expert on this issue and, through this work, he has advised major Jewish institutions and served as a subject matter expert on antisemitism to multinational corporations and institutions for higher learning. He’s the former National Chapter Development Director for the New Leaders Council, where he helped grow NLC into the largest leadership development organization in the progressive movement. He also co-founded and continues to lead Men4Choice, a multi-state advocacy organization working to bring male allies into the fight for reproductive freedom. He holds a Master’s in International Relations from the University of Chicago, a Master’s in Economics and Policy Analysis from DePaul University, and a Master’s in Business Administration from Regis University.

Samantha H. Joseph serves as the Director of the Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships at the United States Department of Agriculture. Samantha spent the first 10 years of her career leading community, diversity and environmental programs for Fortune 500 companies, including at Iron Mountain where she was the company’s first head of corporate social responsibility. Most recently, she led the outreach and engagement efforts for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health’s Vaccine Equity Initiative. A dedicated community leader, Samantha is chair of the board of directors of Samaritans, the largest suicide prevention agency in MA and a member of the board of directors of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston. She is a graduate Brandeis University, the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

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Kendall Kosai is the Director of Policy for the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Western Division, overseeing legislative advocacy and policy for ten states on the West Coast. His portfolio includes leading a comprehensive legislative strategy, supporting field offices in key political issues, engaging with elected officials, and strengthening the organization’s civic engagement efforts. Since starting at ADL, Kendall has led the passage of numerous state-level legislation addressing issues of social media transparency, online hate and harassment, hate crimes, support for victims of hate, domestic extremism, and symbols of terror.

Prior to his current role, Kendall was the Associate Regional Director for the ADL’s Pacific Northwest region, Deputy Director for OCA – Asian Pacific American Advocates, and a Senior Reporter at the North American Post.

Kendall is a Washington State Commissioner on Asian Pacific American Affairs, appointed by Governor Jay Inslee in 2021 where he currently serves on the Executive Committee the 2^nd Vice Chair.  He is the President Emeritus of White River Buddhist Temple and a member of the US-Japan Council. In 2023, he was recognized as a 40 Under 40 by the Puget Sound Business Journal. He is a proud fourth generation Japanese American native to the Pacific Northwest and is a graduate of the University of Washington with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and a Minor in Japanese Language.

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Kiyomi is an Afro-Latin, queer, Jewish, Marine Corps veteran, mother who works to ensure that all of the intersecting identities of her and her children feel at home in any space. If there is one word to sum up her life’s work it would be “inclusion.” Kiyomi’s social justice activism is centered on creating more inclusive spaces for Jewish people of all backgrounds as well as eradicating racism and antisemitism. To that end, she develops, produces, and facilitates panels, workshops, and discussions on the topics of race, racism, and antisemitism and utilizes non-violent communication approaches to coach people through tough conversations and promote productive dialogues. In 2020, Kiyomi co-founded Jewbian Princess, a Black, Jewish women-led organization to deliver corporate-level diversity and inclusion education to Jewish organizations through a Jewish lens. Kiyomi joined the Project Shema team as a coach and facilitator to help educate people on antisemitism and its root causes within social justice activism in 2021. In her role as the Vice President of Partnerships at Project Shema, Kiyomi works with Jewish activists to coach a training and support strategy with the goal of slowing the tide of antisemitism to ensure Jewish voices are included in progressive activism. Recently, Kiyomi joined the facilitator team at Ta’amod to “stand up” for creating psychologically safe Jewish workplaces through empathy, education, and equity. In addition to her day jobs, Kiyomi serves as a board member of the Los Angeles section of the National Council for Jewish Women (“NCJW”) and the national board of Jewish Council of Public Affairs (“JCPA”). She has a degree in political science and a Juris Doctorate with an emphasis in public service. Kiyomi lives with her partner and two children in the suburbs of Los Angeles where she can be found watercolor painting, embroidering, and sewing pieces of flare to inspire a more just world. Learn more about her at KiyomiKowalski.com.

Maoz joined the ADL Operations team in 2023, as Director, Operations & Incident Response. Carrying responsibility for ADL’s incident response services during a long and unprecedented surge in reported incidents, Maoz focuses his work on enabling staff to provide timely and effective support to constituents, optimizing internal processes to increase ADL’s capacity to counter hate and antisemitism, and introducing new technologies and best practices to enhance the impact of the regional offices.

Born and raised in Israel, Maoz immigrated to the US in 2017 and lives New York with his wife and son. Before joining ADL, Maoz helped the Hartman Institute scale up North American operations as their Program Operations Manager. Prior to that, he worked for the Office of the Prime Minister of Israel as a national security analyst and a technology procurement specialist. During his IDF service, Maoz served as a Search and Rescue specialist and a Combat Medic for the Homefront Command.

Maoz is a graduate of the Hebrew University with a BA in International Relations, as well as a graduate of NYU’s dual-degree program, where he earned an MPA focusing on nonprofit management and an MA in Judaic Studies. During his time at NYU, Maoz completed an internship with the JCC Association, where he developed an incident response manual and resources as part of the JResponse program.

Debbie Lechtman is a Jewish, Israeli, and Latina author, educator, content creator, and artist. She is a sitting board member at Indigenous Bridges and writes educational content on Jewish history and identity for the Anti-Defamation League, Creative Community for Peace, Honest Reporting, and more.

She has collaborated with a number of renowned organizations, including Jewish on Campus and the Center for Peace Communications, and has also presented lectures at a number of events, including events hosted by Limmud, the American Jewish Committee, the Holocaust Center for Humanity, Hillel, and Microsoft. In the past, she worked as a guide, educator, and curator at Costa Rica’s only Jewish museum and wrote for a number of Jewish publications

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Adam Lehman is privileged to serve as the President and CEO of Hillel International, the largest Jewish student organization in the world with presence on more than 850 college and university campuses in the U.S. and 16 other countries. Adam spent the first two decades of his career as an entrepreneur and executive, developing and growing new technology and media ventures, including as a Senior Vice President at AOL. Seven years ago, Adam made his career transition into professional leadership at Hillel International, based on his passion for empowering the next generation of Jewish leaders. During his tenure as CEO, Hillel International has focused on investing in the outstanding professionals who support diverse Jewish students across the Hillel field, aggressively addressing the troubling rise of campus antisemitism, growing opportunities for students to engage in service and civic engagement through Hillel, and advancing Hillel’s leadership as the innovation lab for the Jewish future. Adam is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School and a former Harry S. Truman Scholar.

Shaya Lerner is ADL’s Director of Israel Affairs, and Associate Director of Middle Eastern Affairs. He is responsible for helping develop ADL’s Israel policies and programs, including on anti-Zionism, BDS trends, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as well as on issues related to global antisemitism, Iran, and persecuted minorities around the world.

Shaya has drafted and edited numerous ADL statements, letters, op-eds and policy memos on a variety of international issues and has contributed to a number of ADL publications.

Shaya joined ADL in 2011. He resides in White Plains, NY, and holds a Masters in Global Affairs from New York University and a B.A. from Yeshiva University, where he studied history and philosophy.

Alyza D. Lewin is the President of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law (“LDB”), a non-profit organization established to advance the civil and human rights of the Jewish people and promote justice for all. The Brandeis Center conducts research, education and legal advocacy to combat the resurgence of anti- Semitism on college and university campuses. It empowers students by training them to understand their legal rights, and educates administrators on best practices to combat racism and anti-Semitism on campus. Ms. Lewin is also a co-founder and partner in Lewin & Lewin, LLP where she has specialized in litigation, mediation and government relations. Her experience includes criminal defense, civil litigation and anti-discrimination matters.

Ms. Lewin led the litigation team that represented Avi Zinger, the Israeli licensee of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, in the lawsuit that Mr. Zinger filed against Unilever to prevent Ben & Jerry’s boycott of Israel. Ms. Lewin negotiated a successful resolution to that matter pursuant to which Avi Zinger obtained the right in perpetuity to sell Ben & Jerry’s ice cream everywhere in Israel and the territories using the Hebrew and Arabic logos.

In 2014, Lewin argued Zivotofsky v. Kerry (the “Jerusalem Passport” case) before the U.S. Supreme Court, a case involving the constitutionality of a law granting American citizens born in Jerusalem the right to list “Israel” as the place of birth on their U.S. passports. In Zivotofsky, the Supreme Court held that the President of the United States has the exclusive authority to recognize foreign sovereigns. The case paved the way for President Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, and recognition of Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights. After 18 years, Ms. Lewin brought this pro- bono case to a successful resolution in October 2020, when Secretary of State Pompeo revised the US passport regulations and Ambassador David Friedman presented her client with the very first US passport to list “Israel” as place of birth for a US citizen born in Jerusalem.

Ms. Lewin, together with her father Nathan Lewin, also successfully represented the Boim family in its landmark civil tort litigation which established the right of American victims of terror to obtain damages under American law against organizations that knowingly provide financial support to international terrorist groups.

Ms. Lewin began her law career in Israel where she clerked on the Supreme Court for Deputy President Justice Menachem Elon. Ms. Lewin served as President of the American Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists (“AAJLJ”) from 2012 – 2017. In January 2020, Ms. Lewin was awarded the AAJLJ’s distinguished Pursuit of Justice Award. In December 2022, Alyza was named by the Algemeiner to their J100 – as one of the “Top 100 people positively influencing Jewish Life.”

Ms. Lewin received her B.A. from Princeton University and a J.D. from New York University School of Law. Ms. Lewin has also been trained as a mediator by the American Arbitration Association and the Center for Dispute Settlement.

Ariella Loewenstein is the Deputy Regional Director for ADL Los Angeles. As Deputy Regional Director, Ms. Loewenstein oversees the administration of the office, including staff development and supervision and directs communications with various constituencies. She assists in planning, developing, and implementing advocacy initiatives, program activities, and services in the community to advance ADL’s mission within the region. She is also one of ADL’s Regional Operations Law Enforcement contacts, maintaining relationships with key Law Enforcement professionals and providing workshops on domestic terrorism, extremism and hate crimes.

She has been with the League since November 2005. Prior to coming to ADL, she worked in the Jewish community for five years at the Jewish Free Loan Association as a program coordinator and loan analyst.

Ms. Loewenstein has a master’s degree in Public Policy from USC and a bachelor’s degree in Political Science/International Relations. She also received her certificate of mediation from the Center for Conflict Resolution at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles. Ms. Loewenstein is a graduate of both the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosive (ATF) and the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) Citizens’ Academies. She is also a current member of the California Women of Homeland Security. In 2017, she was recognized for her professional excellence by being awarded ADL’s prestigious Senn/Greenberg Award.

Ariel Martin, known as ‘Baby Ariel’ by much of her fandom, got her start in the entertainment industry when she was only 14 by posting lip sync videos on musical.ly, the precursor app to Tik Tok. Her unique style struck a chord and within a few months, her following grew from a few dozen to over 6,000,000. Early on, Ariel decided to leverage her success across other entertainment platforms by posting original content which expanded her following to over 50,000,000 across all platforms. Her success did not come without challenges and being a young creator, she experienced a tremendous amount of cyber-bullying. Recognizing how other kids, teens, and young adults are vulnerable to personal, hurtful online attacks, she decided to use her influence to stand up and fight against cyber-bullying with her nationally recognized program, #ArielMovement. Her actions earned her the recognition of being a twice-honored ‘Time’s Most Influential People on the Internet’ along with multiple Teen’s Choice Awards. Ariel has gone on to expand her interests and activities within the entertainment industry where she has been featured in multiple ‘Disney Channel Original Movies’, starred in a Nickelodeon original movie, and hosted ‘Fam Jam’, a Disney Original show. Her most recent project, “Suncoast” premiered at 2024’s Sundance Film Festival and stars Woody Harrelson, Laura Linney, and Sundance’s breakout performer, Nico Parker. Ariel has always been a proud Jew having visited Israel for the first time when she was only 2 years old to honor her uncle Danny, an IDF soldier who’d been shot and killed by a sniper while escorting a group of mourners in Hebron. She later visited at age 11 with her family. Since the attacks of October 7th, Ariel has been a strong and staunch advocate for Jews, the land of Israel, and its right to defend itself despite the daily harassment and death threats she receives. She has interviewed survivors of the attack and family members of hostages in hopes of sharing their stories and bearing witness. This February, she visited Israel again, this time as a guest of “Combat Anti-Semitism Movement” where she visited the sites where the massacres of October 7th took place and met with families of hostages and victims of the attack. Ariel is an aspiring screenwriter and director and lives in Los Angeles with her boyfriend Milo, her fluffy dog Arlo, and her two silly cats Koa and Ash.

Dani Menkin is a twice Israeli-Academy-Award-Winning writer-director living and working in Los Angeles, California. His multi-award-winning films were sold internationally worldwide. Among them, AULCIE, PICTURE OF HIS LIFE, ON THE MAP, DOLPHIN BOY, and IS THAT YOU? His first acclaimed film 39 POUNDS OF LOVE was sold to HBO and shortlisted for the Oscars. Dani Menkin is the creative director of Hey Jude Productions.

Sarah Moore (she/her) is the Anti-LGBTQ+ Extremism Analyst for ADL and GLAAD focused on countering anti-LGBTQ+ extremism and hate. She received her master’s degree in Security Studies from Georgetown University and her bachelor’s degree from Miami University. Previously, she worked as a General Associate at the University of Maryland’s START Global Terrorism Database (GTD).

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Melissa is the Director of Antisemitism, Holocaust, and Genocide Education at ADL. A former 10th-grade English teacher in Newark Public Schools and a Fulbright scholar in Poland, Melissa studies the intersection of history education, collective memory, and anti-democratic thought.

Melissa has written curriculum and programs, and trained educators on Holocaust pedagogy, antisemitism education, inquiry-learning, human rights, and LGBTQIA+ history, in the U.S., Kenya, Ghana, Israel, Poland, UK, and Germany. Melissa received her Ed.M. from Columbia University Teachers College in 2017, focusing on the link between antisemitism and anti-LGBTQ sentiment in former Soviet countries. Melissa helms ADL’s programs on the Holocaust, genocide, and antisemitism education.

JLens invests in 300 of the most influential US public companies, and engages them on six Jewish value pillars. Dani oversees all of JLens’ direct advocacy and engagement with corporations. Dani has worked for a variety of organizations in the Jewish community focused on education and engagement in both the United States and Israel. Dani holds an MBA with a concentration on social impact and an MA in Jewish Professional Leadership from Brandeis University, as well as a BA in Public Health and Environmental Science from Brandeis University.

James Pasch is the ADL’s Senior Director of National Litigation, after serving four years as ADL’s Cleveland Regional Director (serving Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia and Western Pennsylvania). Building on the path-breaking litigation that ADL has helped to bring in federal court for the District of Columbia against the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers for the role they played in the January 6 insurrection, James is leading a legal advocacy practice for ADL during a particularly important time, as antisemitism and extremism become more mainstreamed, normalized and amplified both online and off.

In his new position, James is building a strategy of legal advocacy to combat antisemitism and other forms of hate, regardless of their political or ideological source. Notably, in November 2023, he oversaw the launch of CALL (Campus Antisemitism Legal Line), a free hotline, providing legal assistance for anyone experiencing antisemitism on college campuses. The project has already led to several potential new avenues of litigation for ADL. In conjunction with Brandeis, James led ADL in filing a complaint against the Santa Ana Unified School District for establishing a biased Ethnic Studies curriculum.

In his time leading the ADL Cleveland Office, James launched a pro-bono legal assistance program to assist victims of hate crimes in Ohio and, under his leadership, ADL’s No Place for Hate education programming has grown over 200 percent regionwide. He also drove the region’s response in the aftermath of the Tree of Life synagogue attack in Pittsburgh, the deadliest terror attack on Jews in U.S. history. James Pasch graduated from University of Vermont and earned his law degree at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. Prior to entering the legal profession, James worked on Capitol Hill, first for Senator Frank Lautenberg and then as a law clerk on the Senate Judiciary Committee. He then built a thriving small firm litigation practice in Cleveland. James served as the Case Western Reserve Law School’s Assistant Dean of Development and External Affairs during the Law School’s Capital Campaign. James has also served two-terms as a Councilman in Beachwood, where he led the City’s passage of its anti-discrimination ordinance.

Hindy Poupko is the Senior Vice President for Community Strategy and External Relations. This newly created position matches Hindy’s strengths in planning and organizational development with her commitment to promoting community relations. In this role, Hindy oversees an integrated and holistic model of programmatic investment and government relations around key priority areas- including UJA’s work to confront antisemitism. Prior to this role, Hindy served as the Deputy Chief Planning Officer and Managing Director of UJA’s Commission on the Jewish People. Before coming to UJA, Hindy was the Managing Director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York. During her seven year tenure, Hindy led the agency’s efforts to build broad-based support for Israel in New York, advocated for the needs of Jewish communities abroad, and, in an increasingly challenging campus environment, developed innovative programming to support New York-area Hillels. Hindy also led the growth of the agency’s Council of Young Jewish Presidents, a leadership development program for young Jewish lay leaders. Prior to joining JCRC-NY, Hindy worked at a political consulting firm and as a Yeshiva University Presidential Fellow. She earned a Master’s Degree in Public Policy from the Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service and a Master’s Degree from the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. Hindy is a Wexner Graduate Fellow Alum and a Schusterman Fellow. In November 2012, Hindy was named to the Forward’s list of the 50 most influential Jews in America.

Jessica Reaves is the Director of Content and Editorial Strategy for the ADL Center on Extremism. She has written extensively about the foundational role of misogyny within a range of extremist groups and movements, including incels and white supremacy.

Before joining the COE in 2014, Reaves was a reporter for more than 15 years, covering politics, the U.S. Supreme Court and global health as a staff writer for the Chicago Tribune, Ms., the Chicago News Cooperative and TIME.com, among others. Reaves is a graduate of Duke University.

Isaiah Joseph Rothstein serves as Rabbinic Scholar and Public Affairs Advisor at Jewish Federations of North America and is a founder of JFNA’s Initiative for Jewish Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, the Jewish Youth Climate Movement, and Kamochah, a community for Black Orthodox Jews. Prior to JFNA, Isaiah was rabbi-in-residence at Hazon, Isabella Freedman, and Be’chol Lashon, and served as rabbi for youth at Carmel Academy, Young Israel of Stamford, NCSY, and Camp Yavneh. Isaiah studied at Kushner Yeshiva High School, Lev HaTorah, Machon Lev, Binghamton University and received rabbinic ordination and a MSW from Yeshiva University. Raised in a multi-racial Chabad family from Monsey, NY, he sees himself as a human bridge, connecting disparate parts of the Jewish community and America. Isaiah is a part of Rabbis Without Borders, Schusterman’s ROI + Senior Fellowship Cohort VII, and was listed in Jewish Week’s “36 Under 36.” When not working to keep the world safe for the Jewish people and democracy, Isaiah is writing a musical about Queen Esther.

Jodi Rudoren became editor-in-chief of the Forward in 2019 after more than two decades at The New York Times, including a stint as Jerusalem bureau chief.

Under her leadership, journalists at the Forward have won record numbers of Rockower Awards from the American Jewish Press Association, as well as prizes from New York’s Deadline Club, L.A.’s Press Club, the Religion News Association and the Society for Features Journalism. Jodi herself won the RNA’s top commentary award in 2022 and was a Deadline Club finalist for her weekly column, “Looking Forward.”

Jodi is a contributor to the anthology, Jewish Priorities: Sixty-five proposals for the future of our people, and a sought-after public speaker. During the Israel-Hamas war, she has appeared on CNN, MSNBC and WNYC’s “Brian Lehrer” show, among others.

At The Times, Jodi pioneered the masthead role of Associate Managing Editor for Audience, served on the 2020 committee designing the newsroom of the future, and won an Emmy Award as executive producer of the multimedia series “One in 8 Million.”

She grew up in Newton, Massachusetts, and graduated cum laude in 1992 from Yale University, where she was managing editor of The Yale Daily News. She and her husband, Gary, combined their surnames in 2006 and live in Montclair, N.J., with their teenaged twins. She is on the board of The Fuller Project, a nonprofit newsroom doing groundbreaking investigative work on gender.

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Alex Ryvchin is co-Chief Executive Officer of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, the author of internationally acclaimed books of history and politics including Zionism – The Concise History, and a best-selling children’s author. His new book on antisemitism is The 7 Deadly Myths – Antisemitism from the Time of Christ to Kanye West

Ben Samuels is the U.S correspondent for Israel’s Haaretz newspaper, based out of Washington. He has extensively covered the Biden administration’s approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, breaking news and offering deeply sourced analysis. Ben also covers Congress and how the Democratic and Republican parties have diverged on Israel, as well as evolving political and public debates around Israel and antisemitism. Ben was previously head of Haaretz’s news desk in Tel Aviv for several years prior to his current posting.

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Sara Scheinbach is ADL’s Director of Jewish Partnerships. In this role, she works with national and international Jewish organizations to create meaningful opportunities to join forces and fight hate. Prior to this role, she served as the Cleveland Region’s Senior Associate Regional Director, during which time she responded to incidents, developed a synagogue engagement program, led young leadership work, and represented ADL in the media. Prior to joining ADL staff, Sara taught as a Teach For America corps member in Atlanta, then earned her JD and worked for several years as a litigator in Cleveland.

As Vice President of the Center on Extremism, Oren Segal leads the organization’s efforts to combat extremism, terrorism, and all forms of hate both in the physical world and online. Recognized as a foremost authority on extremism, the Center on Extremism consists of a team of experts, analysts, and investigators who provide invaluable resources, expertise, and educational briefings to law enforcement agencies, public officials, and internet and technology companies.

Throughout his tenure at ADL, Oren has dedicated much of his time to evaluating and countering the trends, tactics, and impact of antisemitism and extremism across the entire ideological spectrum. He regularly appears on national and international media outlets, provides expert witness testimony, and speaks at conferences worldwide. In recognition of his exceptional service in the public interest, Oren was honored by the FBI in 2006. He was named one of the 50 influential, intriguing, and inspiring American Jews by the Forward in 2019. Prior to joining ADL in 1998, Oren worked for The New York Times and the Jewish Community Federation in San Francisco. He is a graduate of Wheaton College in Massachusetts.

Megan Shahi is the director of Technology Policy at American Progress. She has extensive experience across the U.S. public and private sectors and has spent the majority of her career promoting transparency and accountability inside some of the world’s most influential social media companies. She is deeply passionate about enacting smart and future-proof technology regulation in the United States and positively influencing the intersection of technology and public policy.

Prior to joining American Progress, Shahi worked at Meta, Instagram, and Twitter, where she advocated for user-choice functionality and control, wrote substantial platform policies, and shaped product strategies to safeguard social media users from both real world and online harm. She was a crisis manager in Meta’s first-ever U.S. election “War Room” in 2018, which worked to combat misinformation and inauthentic behavior. Shahi also architected Instagram’s product and content policies for the launch of its short-form video product—Reels—and guided Twitter’s strategy to comply with the European Union’s Digital Services Act. She helped each organization balance policy, safety, and regulatory interests with profit, growth, and engagement incentives to promote safe expression for global user bases.

Before her time working in the technology industry, Shahi served at the U.S. Department of the Treasury in the Office of International Affairs and the Office of Domestic Finance, where she specialized in Western Hemisphere economic policy and domestic financial inclusion, respectively. She began her career in public service at the White House Domestic Policy Council.

Shahi hails from the San Francisco Bay Area and is a graduate of The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs.

Tema Smith is a writer, educator, advocate and community builder whose work centers on antisemitism prevention and equity in the Jewish community and beyond. She currently serves as the Director of Jewish Outreach & Partnerships at ADL, where she leads the agency’s work in partnering with Jewish organizations across the United States to fight back against antisemitism and all forms of hate. A recipient of the 2022 JPro Young Professionals Award, Tema speaks and trains frequently on racial equity, diversity and antisemitism for synagogues, Jewish organizations, and community groups across North America. She serves on the Board of Trustees at the Union for Reform Judaism and on the board of Ammud: The Jews of Color Torah Academy. Prior to joining ADL, she was the Director of Community Engagement at Holy Blossom Temple where she is currently a member. The proud daughter of an Ashkenazi Jewish Torontonian and a Bahamian-American New Yorker, Tema lives in her hometown of Toronto with her dogs, her pour over coffee gear, and way too many books.

Rabbi Rachel Steiner is the Senior Rabbi at Barnert Temple in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, the oldest Jewish congregation in New Jersey. She began serving Barnert as the Assistant Rabbi in 2010 and became the Senior Rabbi in 2018. Rabbi Steiner is passionate about engaging the growing Reform Jewish community that calls Barnert “home” in Jewish learning, creative and musical worship, social opportunities, and inspiring Jewish living that is filled with impact, joy, purpose, and connection. Rabbi Steiner is a leader in the local interfaith clergy group and works with other faith-based groups to build bridges between religious and cultural communities in Bergen County.

Rabbi Steiner graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2002 and attended Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in NYC where she was ordained in 2010. A proud native of the Upper West Side of New York City, Rabbi Steiner and her family are grateful to have made their home in Bergen County, NJ.

Stacy Stuart is a co-founder of JewBelong.com. Originally launched as an online platform for easy, meaningful DIY Jewish rituals and educational resources focusing on outreach to Disengaged Jews (DJs), JewBelong is now focused largely on creating awareness for growing antisemitism in the United States. JewBelong’s national billboard campaign, using headlines like, “Can a billboard end antisemitism? No. But you’re not a billboard,” and “Let’s be clear: Hamas is your problem too” is currently up on outdoor media across the country.

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Jackie Subar serves as the national Director of Strategic Partnerships at the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). In her capacity she is responsible for bolstering national partnerships and for driving ADL’s critical efforts working with communities and lawmakers alike to advance the organization’s mission to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all. Jackie has served in many capacities at the intersection of advocacy and community building. Before joining ADL, Jackie was the Assistant Director for American Jewish Committee’s (AJC) Department of Policy and Political Affairs. In this role, she was responsible for advancing AJC’s mission on Capitol Hill; for fostering strategic relationships in the U.S. House and Senate, and for managing AJC’s legislative work on areas related to civil rights, hate crimes, religious minorities, domestic terrorism, and online hate. She worked closely with the Congressional Caucus on Black-Jewish Relations. Jackie has spent her professional career in Washington where she has worked to foster intergroup and diplomatic relations. She obtained her master’s in Public Administration from the George Bush School at Texas A&M University and prior to graduate school spent a year studying in Israel.

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Nina Tassler is a Producer, Author, and Media & Entertainment Executive, Formerly Chair of CBS Entertainment. Serving as President since 2004, she led CBS Entertainment to great heights, propelling it to be named America’s #1 Network during 12 of the 13 years of her tenure. She developed such hit series as “The Big Bang Theory,” “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” the “NCIS” franchise, “The Good Wife,” “How I Met Your Mother,” and the award-winning daytime talk show, “The Talk.” Nina also assembled a senior staff that was 50% female and helped establish CBS Entertainment’s first Diversity, Inclusion, and Communications department.

Nina delivered the 2016 commencement speech at her alma mater, Boston University. She has received the Award for Creative Achievement by The Imagen Foundation, The Lucy Award for Excellence in Television by Women in Film, The Champion of Choice Award by Planned Parenthood, and the National Champion of Children Award from the Alliance of Children’s Rights. Nina was Chair and Honoree of the Jewish Federation, Entertainment Division, as well as, recipient of Jewish Family Service, LA’s Susie Forer-Dehrey Spirit of Humanity Award. In 2010, she co-led with Nancy Josephson, the first Women in Entertainment mission to Israel.

In 2016, Simon & Schuster published her book, WHAT I TOLD MY DAUGHTER, a collection of inspiring reflections from notable, highly accomplished women in politics, academia, athletics, the arts, and business. In 2023, Nina produced the Broadway show, THE COTTAGE starring Eric McCormack, directed by Jason Alexander. Nina serves on the Boston University Board of Trustees, the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media and on the Board of Jewish Family Service, LA having served as Chair from 2019-2022. She lives in LA with husband Jerry Levine, daughter, son, and daughter in law.

Miriam Tennenbaum is the Vice President of Development at Olami, where she combines her diverse skill set and passions to build a movement centered in Jewish pride, identity, and engagement. Her background in nonprofit development and Jewish engagement, coupled with her expertise in security, enables her to address the unique challenges facing Jewish communities worldwide. Prior to her current role, Miriam held development positions at United Hatzalah and Chai Lifeline, where she focused on initiatives to support and strengthen Jewish communities. She has also served as a security consultant at DEG Strategic and as an investigative analyst at MSA Security, contributing to security assessments and threat analyses aimed at safeguarding Jewish organizations and institutions.

Miriam earned her BA in Political Science and Media Studies from the City University of New York-Queens College, and an MA in Diplomacy and International Relations from Seton Hall University, with a specialization in International Security and the Middle East.  

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Marie van der Zyl was elected President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews in May 2018.She became a Deputy is 2012 and was elected Vice President in 2015, where she served as Chair of the Defense Division. Since 2015, she has played a crucial part in the fight against antisemitism in the Labour Party. Her quote, labelling the Chakrabarti report as a “whitewash”, was carried widely across national media. Marie was at the forefront of the campaign against the so-called “cabrank” policy, by which the Inner North London Coroner delayed the release of bodies to Jewish families. The High Court ruled that this policy was discriminatory. She has been a strong advocate for the adoption of the IHRA definition of antisemitism, including negotiating with King’s College London which resulted in its adoption of the IHRA definition. She has energetically pursued interfaith relations with Britain’s faith communities and has also led the campaign against the persecution of the Uyghur Muslims. Marie is very passionate about youth engagement and future leadership development. Marie, who represents Jewish Lads and Girls Brigade, has two daughters. In her professional life she is a solicitor specializing in employment equalities law and a partner at INCE GD.

Hanna Esther Veiler was born into a Jewish family in Belarus in 1998 and grew up in a small town in southern Germany from 2005. Veiler is working on the topics of antisemitism, Jewish women empowerment, Eastern-Europe and remembrance culture. After completing a voluntary service in Israel in 2017, she studied art history, French literature and peace studies in Germany, France and Costa Rica. Veiler is president of the German Union of Jewish Students (JSUD), vice-president of the European Union of Jewish Students (EUJS), a trainer in the ADL Words to Action program, Lauder Fellow at the WJC and works as a political educator and publicist.

Dr. Samantha Vinokor-Meinrath is an award-winning Jewish educator, and currently serves as the Managing Director of Identity, Ideas, and Adolescents at The Jewish Education Project. Samantha is a recognized expert on antisemitism, Jewish peoplehood, Israel, and Jewish teens. She is the author of #antisemitism: Coming of Age During the Resurgence of Hate, a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in the category of Education and Jewish Identity.

Charlie Cytron-Walker became the new rabbi at Temple Emanuel in Winston-Salem, NC on July 1, 2022.

Rabbi Charlie arrives at Temple Emanuel with a history of working to bring a sense of spirituality, compassion, and learning into the lives of the community.

He is a past President of the Southwest Association of Reform Rabbis and served on the steering committee of Peace Together. In 2022, he was honored as a Hero Against Hate by the Texoma Anti-Defamation League and currently serves as a Special Advisor to the ADL.

He previously served at Congregation Beth Israel (CBI) in Colleyville, TX since 2006. On January 15, 2022 Rabbi Charlie and three CBI congregants were held hostage by a gunman in the CBI sanctuary.  After an 11-hour standoff, all the hostages were able to escape when Rabbi Charlie threw a chair at the gunman, distracting him long enough for everyone to get out of the building.  Since then, he has spoken at the White House, testified before Congress, and has been published in numerous news sources.

Thom Waye is the Chief Strategy Officer of Chabad on Campus International. He comes from both a background in business and philanthropy, with a strong connection to the Jewish community and Israel. Prior to joining Chabad on Campus, Thom was the founder of Sigma Capital Partners and previously worked at ComVest Venture Partners, AIG Capital Partners, Motorola, and Unisys. He also sat on or Chaired, the boards of multiple private and public companies.

On the philanthropy front, Thom sits on the board of the Areivim Philanthropic Group, is a Trustee of Park Avenue Synagogue, serves on the Conservation Council of Panthera, was the former Trustee of the Recanati-Kaplan Foundation, a founding member of the Board of Directors of Sprout Lake Camps, and served as Chairman US Friends of Madatech: The Israel National Museum of Science.

Thom has a BS from Syracuse University and holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School.

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